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Data.gov Now Live; Looks Nice But Short on Data
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 21, 2009 9:02 AM / 13 Comments

Data.govlogo.jpgThe long awaited catalog of public data from the US government launched this morning at Data.gov. Developers, watchdogs and data nerds around the world rejoiced - but the initial offering is a bit of a let down.

New federal CIO Vivek Kundra is in charge of the site, which will act as a central repository for government data, including XML, CSV, KML files and more. At launch a mere 47 data sets are included and they appear to lean towards the least controversial matters. None the less, it's exciting to see the effort happening. Hopefully some awesome mashups are on the way!

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US Senate Votes Now Available in XML - Bring on The Mashups!
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 5, 2009 10:43 AM / 16 Comments

demint.jpgToday is an important day in the history of politics and technology - the US Senate voting record is finally available in machine-readable XML (extensible markup language) format. Mashups, vote tracking and comparison applications, will now be welcomed in the front door of Congress as first class technologies.

On May 1st South Carolina's Senator, Jim DeMint, officially asked the Senate Rules Committee to make the data available and just four days later the feed is here. Not everyone is happy about about the information being made publicly available like this, however.

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Web 3.0 Conference: Real-World Value from Semantics and Analytics
Written by RWW Sponsor / April 27, 2009 1:00 PM / 8 Comments

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From May 19th to 20th, mediabistro will hold its Web 3.0 Conference in New York City at the New Yorker Hotel. The conference focuses on the semantic web, mashups, text and data analytics, and how they add real-world value to end users and businesses.

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Sunlight Foundation Funds Six "Apps for America"
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 20, 2009 3:04 PM / 7 Comments

Chips, dip and government data are everyone's three favorite things to take to a party, right? Ok, so government data is actually quite boring on its own, but in these exciting times of democratized programming, government data can be turned into some pretty exciting mashups.

That's just what the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation is aiming to make more possible with its work to make government and related data more available with its new Apps for America contest. More than 40 open source applications and websites making use of that data entered the contest and today the six fabulous winners were announced. We've got a five minute screencast tour of the winners below.

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Removing the Clutter: Readability Bookmarklet Makes Online Reading Easier
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 3, 2009 9:39 AM / 4 Comments

readability_logo_feb09.pngWhile reading is one of the main activities on the Internet, a lot of sites pay very little attention to the readability of their text. Instead, the reader's eye is constantly drawn to other UI elements, ads, and widgets. Arc90's Readability experiment is setting out to change this. Readability is a small bookmarklet that extracts the text from almost any web site and displays it on an easy to read page that removes all of the clutter that can make reading on the Internet so hard sometimes.

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Hype Machine Zeitgeist: Listen in Full to the 50 Most Blogged Albums of 2008, For Free
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 5, 2009 12:53 PM / 5 Comments

hypemzlogo.jpgMusic mashup site shows how User Experience is done.

MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. There you can listen, for free, to entire albums from the most blogged-about musicians of 2008. Bringing together a whole host of different technologies to create one experience, the site is beautiful and a lot of fun to navigate.

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Capitol Words: What Your Congress Person Really Talks About
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 19, 2008 12:06 PM / 2 Comments

congresspic2.jpgThe Sunlight Foundation's mashup site Capitol Words relaunched this week and now offers a very handy way to see what keywords are being used in the US Congress in general and by particular congress members. If you pay only passing attention to politics, Capitol Words is a great way to familiarize yourself with politicians in a hurry. It's a mashup of several different ways to search the Congressional Record and it's fun to use.

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TheLaughButton: Like Hype Machine for Stand Up Comedy
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 15, 2008 5:12 PM

laughbuttonlogo.jpgTaylor McKnight has been called a "serial mashup developer" and he's involved in some of the coolest mashup sites we've seen in recent years. Three years ago he won the grand prize at the first ever MashupCamp for his site PodBop ("We podcast bands coming to your town"). Then he came on board at one of the most popular little music sites on the web, Hype Machine. He's also working in a little startup called Sched.org, a service that started by offering an unofficial calendar for the SXSW festival and now pays the bills building custom social schedules for other events.

Today Taylor McKnight launched a new site that he's been working on since Spring, and he says it's like Hype Machine for standup comedy.

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Keyboardr: More Fun Than Google Wiki?
Written by Sarah Perez / November 25, 2008 5:41 AM / 4 Comments

Are you a fan of keyboard shortcuts? Do you j and k your way through Google Reader? Or Ctrl + Enter (Cmd + Return) to add the "www" and the ".com" when you're browsing the web in Firefox? If ditching the mouse is your definition of efficiency, then you're going to love this new Google Search Mashup called keyboardr.

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Decho To Offer API Access to All Your Life's Data
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2008 11:03 AM / 1 Comments

dechologo.jpgWhen it comes to storing personal digital data in the cloud and serving it up in interesting ways - we're in the very early days of a brand new paradigm.

Today popular online storage company Mozy announced that it has been merged by the company that acquired it with another acquisition called Pi (Personal Information) - into a new forthcoming service called Decho (your digital echo). Pi was founded by Paul Maritz, who is now the CEO of virtualization powerhouse VMWare. What do you get when you bring these kinds of stars together into one service? Only a few clues are available so far, but we're excited to see what Decho becomes.

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Dapper MashupAds: A New Lease on Life for One of the Coolest Tools on the Web
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 10, 2008 10:57 AM / 5 Comments

Dapper MashupAds.jpgWhen I first discovered RSS creation tool Dapper.net two years ago I knew it was exciting, but I couldn't figure out how to use it. I was surprised to find people talking about it at tech events who felt the same way. This was a tool that had huge potential but also stood on shaky ground in terms of usability, legal impact and thus long term viability as a business.

Two years later Dapper has become a service I depend on, it's enabled me to do a significant portion of my work as a blogger and a consultant in ways that nothing else can. Today the company rolled out a new service that will help its own bottom line. Web 2.0 is fast becoming a story of awesome tools that didn't find a large number of users and had to slink off into the shadows of advertising sales - reduced to polluting social networks and young minds with insipid pop-culture content that really ought not even exist. Thankfully, that's not the case with the newly launched Dapper MashupAds.

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First New York Times API is Live - Here's Why it Matters
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 14, 2008 3:27 PM / 13 Comments

nytimes4api.pngThe much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open - All the code that's fit to printf(). First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a movie review API. Also available is a database management program initially developed for internal use at the NY Times.

The Times quietly announced in May that it would soon be publishing APIs, which are means by which outside developers can access NY Times data for use in other applications, interfaces and mashups. We believe that steps like this are going to prove key if big media is to thrive in the future.

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It's Official: Mashup Privacy Protocol OAuth Is Fair Game
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 26, 2008 5:40 PM / 8 Comments

OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight.

All parties involved in building the spec have signed a covenant of non-assertion, meaning that OAuth can now be safely implemented anywhere without concern about Intellectual Property lawsuits. If you think this is too geeky for you - try out the live demo embedded below.

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Daylife API Challenge is a Flop, Shows That Mashups Are Hard
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 20, 2008 4:47 PM / 6 Comments

daylifelogo.jpgWe get excited around here whenever a new application offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for 3rd parties to develop against. Oh, the possibilities! Sometimes, though, it just doesn't pan out and our dreams are dashed against the craggy rocks of reality. Mashups are hard and just because you've got some cool data and good hooks for developers to pull from doesn't mean anyone's going to build anything worth using on your API.

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eMusic Goes Web 2.0: Adds Content from Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 22, 2008 9:27 AM / 7 Comments

emusic-logo.pngToday, eMusic launched a major redesign of its site. The new design not only looks a lot fresher, but eMusic now also draws in information from Wikipedia, videos from YouTube, and photos from Flickr. EMusic is the second-largest online music retailer after iTunes, but it often doesn't quite get the coverage newer music sites like Pandora or Last.fm get.

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Could a Government Mashup Contest Top McCain's Battery Project?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 7, 2008 8:42 AM / 3 Comments

govpic.jpgLast month US Presidential hopeful John McCain announced an ambitious new proposal that would award a $300 million prize to the inventor of a better battery for powering automobiles. It is a laudable idea and one that could tackle some of the biggest problems the world faces - but it's a proposal grounded in last-century thinking none the less.

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Mapstraction Takes Map Mashups To A Whole New Level
Written by Sarah Perez / July 3, 2008 10:02 AM / 6 Comments

If you're a developer who loves to build mashups - especially map mashups - then you have to check out the library provided by Mapstaction. (And if you're end user, wait until you see the demos!) Mapstraction is library that provides a common API for various mapping APIs already in existence. This allows developers to use the Mapstraction API to build a mashup that supports nine of the major mapping providers including Google Maps, Microsoft's Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps, and more.

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Government 2.0: The Government as a Platform
Written by Josh Catone / May 23, 2008 12:14 PM / 16 Comments

TechPresident points to and interesting article today from the Yale Journal of Law & Technology (draft version of article set to appear in 2008-2009 Fall Issue) that proposes a new form of open government that encourages the closure of government web sites. The idea is that US government web sites are so notoriously bad, they should just be torn down in favor of private sector alternatives. But this is more than just a privatization push, this is about turning the government into a data platform.

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5 Great Ways to Contribute to Social Media
Written by Corvida / May 17, 2008 3:01 PM / 14 Comments

There's no doubt that the focus of the web is shifting to the community. At the forefront of this shift is social media. Social media can be loosely defined as the movement of community contributions in an effort to help one another. There's plenty of giving, taking, promoting, and marketing. In an effort to also contribute, here are 5 great ways to contribute to social media.

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Forrester: Enterprise Mashups to Hit $700 Million by 2013
Written by Josh Catone / May 6, 2008 9:15 AM / 8 Comments

A new report from Forrester Research predicts that mashups will be coming to the enterprise in a big way -- to the tune of a $700 million market by 2013. Mashup platforms that make it easier for consumer to create mashup applications, such as Yahoo! Pipes, Dapper, or Microsoft Popfly, are beginning to have analogues in the enterprise space. "Mashup platforms are in the pole position and ready to grab the lion's share of the market -- and an entire ecosystem of mashup technology and data providers is emerging to complement those platforms," says Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young.

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